Warren and Brandeis (W & B) published a paper titled “The Right to Privacy” in 1890, which became a seminal work to establish “the right of privacy as an inviolate personality” and to legislate for it around the world. However, it is sometimes overlooked or neglected in Japan that the same paper posed “property” against “privacy” and investigated the subtle balance between them, using author's right to unpublished work as an example. In and around 1990, there appeared a lot of academic papers to celebrate the hundredth anniversary and to reevaluate the broad scope of W & B's work, among which Post's paper is distinguished. This paper tries to analyze the present value of W & B through the lens of Post.

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This article analyzes some precedents of the Supreme Court of Japan for cases on taking or publishing portrait photographs.
First, the concept of “freedom in one's private life” defined by the Supreme Court should be regarded as prevention against interference by police powers and distinguished from the Right to Dignity. Second, in an intrusion of the press case, the Supreme Court reversed the High Court decision to replace a presumption of illegality with an overall judgment. Third, the Supreme Court acknowledged an economic aspect of identity in a recent decision that mentioned “proper commercial value of the portrait” and established a standard for judging appropriation of “power to attract customers” in a Right of Publicity case.

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The objective of this paper is to characterize innovation in business-to-business (B2B) mobile services in Korea and to identify user involvement in service innovation. The paper examines the characteristics of B2B mobile carrier services, and aims to find out what type of service innovations pervade the whole B2B mobile carrier services. The results were validated in the case study of Mobile Campus of two universities: UNIST and POSTECH. Mobile Campus is the B2B mobile carrier service which provides universities various smartphone-based mobile solutions. An analysis of 236 B2B mobile carrier service products through statistical techniques was done to characterize B2B mobile carrier services. As a result, service products were grouped into seven types (data-centric informative, ordinary task support, IT Governance, cloud, multi-channel communication, security support and other mobile solution services) based on service characteristics. The service groups were again distinguished into three categories: incremental, radical and semi-radical service innovations. In the case of Mobile Campus, innovation occurred at the user-provider interface. As service users, universities played an important role in service design and implementation, being able to customize them for their particular needs and preferences.

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The desire of the visually disabled and other handicapped people to read books is now addressed by the accessibility function of electronic books. In Japan, however, the penetration of electronic book readers has been slower than in the United States and the number of accessible electronic books is still very limited. This article clarifies the reasons for this lack of penetration and outlines legal, institutional and technical issues preventing the penetration of accessible electronic books.

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“Telework” is a work style that is free from restriction of place and time by using ICT. It is advantageous for us to adopt telework as a risk management strategy for an emergency, since it allows us to work at home rather than having to travel to an office.
This research aims to investigate the advantages and issues surrounding telework with particular reference to the confusion in the traffic network after The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake in 2011. A large-scale Web questionnaire was carried out, and four implications were drawn from the results.
1. Many workers went to their company even though the traffic network was thrown into confusion.
2. About one in ten companies were using telework.
3. The experience did not contribute to other case of confusion.
4. Telework may have changed workers' attitudes and reactions toward the confusion in the traffic network.

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